Question

How to print wire shark logs using Python script and please provide one example?

Answer 1

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Copyright 2014 Roland Knall <rknall [AT] gmail.com>
#
# Wireshark - Network traffic analyzer
# By Gerald Combs <[email protected]>
# Copyright 1998 Gerald Combs
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
#

"""
This is a generic example, which produces pcap packages every n seconds, and
is configurable via extcap options.
@note
{
To use this script on Windows, please generate an extcap_example.bat inside
the extcap folder, with the following content:
-------
@echo off
<Path to python interpreter> <Path to script file> %*
-------
Windows is not able to execute Python scripts directly, which also goes for all
other script-based formates beside VBScript
}
"""

from __future__ import print_function

import os
import sys
import signal
import re
import argparse
import time
import struct
import binascii
from threading import Thread

ERROR_USAGE = 0
ERROR_ARG = 1
ERROR_INTERFACE = 2
ERROR_FIFO = 3
ERROR_DELAY = 4

CTRL_CMD_INITIALIZED = 0
CTRL_CMD_SET = 1
CTRL_CMD_ADD = 2
CTRL_CMD_REMOVE = 3
CTRL_CMD_ENABLE = 4
CTRL_CMD_DISABLE = 5
CTRL_CMD_STATUSBAR = 6
CTRL_CMD_INFORMATION = 7
CTRL_CMD_WARNING = 8
CTRL_CMD_ERROR = 9

CTRL_ARG_MESSAGE = 0
CTRL_ARG_DELAY = 1
CTRL_ARG_VERIFY = 2
CTRL_ARG_BUTTON = 3
CTRL_ARG_HELP = 4
CTRL_ARG_RESTORE = 5
CTRL_ARG_LOGGER = 6
CTRL_ARG_NONE = 255

initialized = False
message = ''
delay = 0.0
verify = False
button = False
button_disabled = False

"""
This code has been taken from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5943249/python-argparse-and-controlling-overriding-the-exit-status-code - originally developed by Rob Cowie http://stackoverflow.com/users/46690/rob-cowie
"""
class ArgumentParser(argparse.ArgumentParser):
def _get_action_from_name(self, name):
"""Given a name, get the Action instance registered with this parser.
If only it were made available in the ArgumentError object. It is
passed as it's first arg...
"""
container = self._actions
if name is None:
return None
for action in container:
if '/'.join(action.option_strings) == name:
return action
elif action.metavar == name:
return action
elif action.dest == name:
return action

def error(self, message):
exc = sys.exc_info()[1]
if exc:
exc.argument = self._get_action_from_name(exc.argument_name)
raise exc
super(ArgumentParser, self).error(message)

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